Charles G. Finney once said: “When God commands you to do a thing, it is the highest possible evidence, equal to an oath, that we can do it.”

The thing that taxes Almightiness is the very thing that you as a disciple of Jesus Christ ought to believe He would do. Sometimes we must be shipwrecked upon the supernatural; we must be thrown upon God; we must lose the temporal—that we may find the Eternal.

“It is God who works” (Philippians 2:13). Men work like men and nothing more is expected of man than what man can do. But God worketh like a God, and with Him nothing is impossible.

There is for us a source of heightened power . A most sugge stive translation (Jam es Moffatt) of 1 Samuel 2:1 reads: My heart thrills to the Eternal; my powers ar e heightened by my God.

Amos was just a herdsman from Tekoa, but his powers were heightened by his God. It happened to Peter . It happened to Paul. Abrah am Lincoln faced the impossible when he set out to uproot the slave trade.

We are all in need of more powe r, more courage, more wisdom than we actually possess. This “plus extra” comes to him whose heart thrills over the Eternal, who daily waits for Divine resources.

“Difficulty” is a relative term. It all depends upon the power you have available. Difficulty diminishes as the power increases, and altogether vanishes when the power rises to Omnipotence. “Our sufficiency is of God.” All God’ s biddings are enablings. Always provided that we are on the line of God’ s written Word, in the current of His revealed purpose, there is nothing you may not trust Him for .

As one of a thousand you may just fail; But as “one, plus God,” you are bound to win.

Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord.

I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.

I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth.

I have whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.

Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

My heart rejoiceth in the Lord . . . . I rejoice in thy salvation.

Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.